The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-01

The following Is from tie pen of
walked upon Ivy Gov. Church, which
caused him to exclaim thusly:
To the Editor of the Globe:
/ see by your issue Of the 9th inst.
that Gov. Church has so forgotten all
his gentlcmanly instincts. il he,'cver had
any.--of which his course during his
brief occupation of the g%uberuatorial
chair puts me in doubt-as to bctray a
trust. and furnish a private leiter for
publication. to a tool of his, who signs
himself 'Abcr Deem. Worse. he puts |
it out in n garfield form. purposely to
mislead its readers. That letter began
with this sentence which he omitted;
AT your request ! write you.' or words
to flat effect. The letter to light |
by the disguised hand of an assassin, a
manner entirely in keeping with
Church, conduct toward the democrats
who stood by him in the fight for gov
ernorship. and aftcrward. and toward
the members of the legislature. and is
as diSreputable as his bartering away
among the republicans the rights and
s4Vtl'lS VI tIt OttIltIVIulS anu tllG OGlilOS
cratic party for additions to his doodle.
First. he gave Smith the railroad COM
missionerSllip in return for Gains vote
in favor of confirming the appoint-
ment of his favorites- own admis-
sion-and the increasing of his salary,
and other isreputable measures to give
him power and pclf. Last. the crown
ing act. the rumor ome of the trading
off the treasurership to the old repub-
lican incumbent for a house and lot in
Bismarck valued at $4,000. Shame and
confusion rest on the c~ountenances of
all true democrats at this spectacle of
cupidity and corruption.
1t has been given out that President
Cleveland is an intimate friend of this
Church, but this | learn is a SANDER.
$ President Cleveland is having his eyes
opened to the true character of the gov
: ----. H. L~. .~..-vAd Lattsr NOR
who We're appointed by him when he
became satisfied he had been deceived
4 My information i'll Tins matter comes
4 from one who was close to Church in
l his Struggle for the Office he now holds
L Since Church has shown his true char
acter I have often wondered at his APP.
pointment. The maudlin
e condition of Church while delivering
4 his inaugural. and at different times
( is now an open secret. 1t shows that
a a man who has no regard for the dig.
4 nifty. of his position. who puts no value
7 upon his word, and has no sense of
honor and trust between gentlemen
possesses only beastly propensities which
J govern all his actions. | say these
things of our first democratic governor
who now fills the place which was SC
$ ably and h%onorably filled by Gov Pierce
( with pain and modification. Such is
imported democracy. which Just now is
/ set up over the true democratic r~ustlers
who reduced the republican majority
. one-third at the last election. with Hon.
NJ. H. Day as their standard bearer.
G Requiscat in pace.
S C. BoYD BARRETT.
t Aberdeen, June II.
!, 1t is astonishing that the long es-
= tablished purity and integrity Of the
democratic party should at this late
I day be disrupted by the unearthing Of
y rogues. high in power. We wonder,
now, il it is not possible to trace back
Church's political history and find him
. to be formerly, orc If those villainous
/: republicans. When democratic roeues
fall out in dividing the Doodle, honest
nrcn are liable to get their dues.
y Like all the rest of Cleve.and's so
u called wise policies. here is a governo,
IL that wen an iron-clad bourbon cauno,
lie stomach.
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